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Checkers Artist Harry Herman Roseland

• American ethnic genre painter of the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries.
  
  
• Roseland developed his own style of genre painting as it became increasingly popular in nineteenth century America.
  
  
• This style offered him an outlet for his natural flair of telling a story, evoking an emotion or educating society through his paintings.
  
  
• He was primarily a self taught artist who chose to paint what he saw: common scenes in society.
  
  
• Roseland abandoned the mawkishness that is the downfall of so many self educated artists when he found a topic that was close to home and yet largely unnoticed: the post Civil War blacks who formed the underpinning of Northeastern society.
  
  
• He specialized in interior genres filled with activity and emotion, whether it be the concentration in a game of checkers, the joy of being together or the stress of day to day living.
  
  
• Roseland's clever, skilful scenes of homely activities such as checkers or letter reading were remarkably candid for the time period and are still a good reflection of the simple way of life of that era.
  
  
• The naturalism depicted in the subjects presented a true realism of life.

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